IBT Staff Reporter

Actor Hugh Grant, known for films such as Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary, has welcomed a baby girl into his life following a brief affair with an unidentified woman, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

Monday afternoon's announcement that Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin will be the closing-night film at the AFI Fest would be more newsworthy if the film won't already have been playing around the world for two weeks by the time it debuts in Hollywood on November 10.

Lonely Planet has just released their picks for top 10 cities in 2012. Some are obvious choices, but many will surprise.

Michael Jackson's doctor said Tuesday he will not testify in his own defense during his trial on a charge of involuntary manslaughter stemming from the 2009 death of the pop star.

Surgeons in Northern California began a nine-hour operation on Tuesday to separate a pair of twin 2-year-old girls conjoined at the chest and abdomen.

Hewlett Packard Co unveiled plans to develop extremely low-energy servers, partnering with companies such as chip designers ARM Holdings Plc and Advanced Micro Devices Inc in a move that could threaten the dominance of Intel Corp.

Call it putting a gloss on some bad news, but Credit Suisse chief Brady Dougan reckons the bank is ahead of the pack with Tuesday's announcement of an overhaul of its investment banking operations.

A string of courtroom victories by drugmakers in key product-liability trials could be a signal that these and other companies can beat back claims in upcoming cases against them.

Stocks tumbled 2 percent on Tuesday after a surprise proposal that Greeks should vote on a EU bailout plan threatened to upend weeks of painstaking negotiations and unleash the region's sovereign debt crisis with renewed force.

Germans expressed fury and frustration on Tuesday at the Greek prime minister's shock decision to call a referendum on a new financial rescue package, political leaders saying it could plunge Greece into bankruptcy and force it out of the euro zone.

Global factory activity slowed in October on weak demand for exports, with a sharp contraction in Britain's manufacturing sector suggesting that Europe was on the brink of a new recession.

Ann Coulter, no stranger to controversial remarks, was at it again Monday night, saying black Republicans were superior to black Democrats.

Bank of America Corp scrapped plans to charge a $5 per-month debit fee, handing a victory to consumers and protesters angry with big banks.

Hackers disrupted Palestinian Internet services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Palestinian telecoms minister said, alleging that a foreign government was behind the interference.

Mitt Romney hasn't won the Republican nomination yet, but President Barack Obama seems to be treating him like an opponent.

A public-private fund that will acquire the small- and midsize-LCD operations of Toshiba Corp, Hitachi Ltd and Sony Corp will also buy a Panasonic Corp factory for about 20 billion yen ($255.5 million), Japanese business daily The Nikkei said.

French banks and lenders exposed to Greece and other weak euro zone countries slumped on Tuesday after Greece's leader said he would put a bailout plan to a referendum, raising the risk of a disorderly default.

Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, reported third-quarter profit that topped analysts' expectations based on U.S. growth of their cholesterol block-buster drug Lipitor, favorable foreign exchange rates and increases in overseas sales.

Yahoo Inc will pay $270 million for interclick inc as it tries to revive its ailing online advertising business, even as the search and advertising giant continues to scout for potential bidders.

The fan who caused much damage in the ill-tempered Romanian match between Steaua Bucharest and Petrolul Ploiesti has been charged after fracturing Bucharest defender George Galamaz's cheekbone.

The Greek government faced possible collapse on Tuesday as ruling party lawmakers demanded Prime Minister George Papandreou resign for throwing the nation's euro membership into jeopardy with a shock call for a referendum.

The pace of growth in U.S. manufacturing slowed last month, though improvement in October new orders suggested stable but slow growth for the U.S. economy.

U.S. auto sales rose to near their highest level of 2011 in October, early sales results showed, although shares in General Motors Co and other automakers tumbled on concern that the industry's slow recovery could falter.

Chrysler Group LLC posted a 27 percent gain in October U.S. sales -- its best result in four years -- as major automakers reported results pointing to the strongest showing for industrywide vehicle sales since the start of 2011.

President Barack Obama will sign a declaration Tuesday afternoon declaring Fort Monroe as a national monument. The fort played an important part in both the beginning and end of slavery in America.

The Federal Reserve could begin to prepare financial markets for further monetary easing at the conclusion of a two-day meeting that began on Tuesday, even if it refrains from any new stimulus just yet.

Britain and the United States rejected calls from China and Russia for greater Internet controls on Tuesday at the opening of a major cyberspace conference, but Western states faced accusations of double standards.

Stocks tumbled more than 2 percent on Tuesday after a proposed Greek referendum threatened to upend a European bailout plan to contain the sovereign debt crisis.

The cost of nitrogen sensors is still a barrier for many farmers.